Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 December 1879 — A Saturday Night Scene. [ARTICLE]

A Saturday Night Scene.

Atlanta (Ga.> Constitution. Last night, about dark, in the beating rain, an old'man and a small girl passed along with the busy crowd on Whitehall street. He mu»t have been seventy, at least, and was so feeble that the storm seemed almost too much for him. She was net more than twelve,

or fourteen at most, bat in manner and carriage was a little woman and not a child. She appeared to have the care of a household on her, for she stopped to make purchases of provisions with a little pone so sparsely filled that it told the tale of the poverty whksh her neat appearance so nearly concealed More than one person notified the care with which she selected a scanty stock of a few necessaries and the faith of the old man as he stood by and left all to the taste and prudence of tbe childwoman. When herllttle bundles were ready she tucked them under ber arm. wrapped her shawl about her head ana said to ner father, “come on,” as cheerily as if she were calling a companion to play. They went down the street, the little one seeming to lead the way through tbe crowd, and the old man following in bis feeble gait. The darknees and crowd soon hid them from eyes that would gladly have seen them longer, but even a brief glimpse left the thought that he might be one on whom affliction and misfortune had heavily fallen, and she one of those children, alike wise and lovely beyond their years, dispensing the blessings ot a womanhood in all tenderness, while she held the faith and pure-hearted joy of a child. It was a Saturday night scene worth seeing and worth thinking about.